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worldbet: Convert WorldBet to IPA

This micropackage converts WorldBet ASCII characters for English sounds into UTF-8 character and HTML entities.

Inside of R: RStudio

RStudio has rich support for UTF-8 symbols. Here is how some WorldBet-to-IPA conversions look in RStudio.

library("worldbet")

# that
convert_bet_to_ipa("D@t")
#> [1] "ðæt"

# uh-oh
convert_bet_to_ipa("^?o")
#> [1] "ʌʔo"

# water, weather (vector input)
convert_bet_to_ipa(c("wA)&_r", "wED&_r"))
#> [1] "wɑɾɚ" "wɛðɚ"

Inside of R: Command Line

From the command prompt on Windows, R falls back to escape sequences during the conversions.

# that
convert_bet_to_ipa("D@t")
#> [1] "ðæt"

# uh-oh
convert_bet_to_ipa("^?o")
#> [1] "<U+028C><U+0294>o"

# water, weather (vector input)
convert_bet_to_ipa(c("wA)&_r", "wED&_r"))
#> [1] "w<U+0251><U+027E><U+025A>" "w<U+025B>ð<U+025A>"

Outside of R: HTML Entities

For RMarkdown documents, we can use HTML entities for in-text use of IPA. For example, we could write the following RMarkdown in our prose:

The word was /`r convert_bet_to_entity('SIp')`/ ("ship").

RMarkdown-to-markdown conversion then yields the following text with HTML entities instead of WorldBet symbols:

The word was /ʃɪp/ ("ship").

Finally, markdown-to-HTML conversion yields the following human-readable form of the symbols.

The word was /ʃɪp/ ("ship").

WorldBet specification

The table below shows the implementation of the WorldBet used in the package.

| WorldBet | IPA | HTML Entity | |:---------|:----|:------------| | p | p | p | | b | b | b | | m | m | m | | t | t | t | | d | d | d | | n | n | n | | k | k | k | | g | ɡ | ɡ | | N | ŋ | ŋ | | ? | ʔ | ʔ | | f | f | f | | v | v | v | | T | θ | θ | | D | ð | ð | | s | s | s | | z | z | z | | S | ʃ | ʃ | | Z | ʒ | ʒ | | h | h | h | | h_v | ɦ | ɦ | | ) | ɾ | ɾ | | l | l | l | | 9 | ɹ | ɹ | | j | j | j | | w | w | w | | W | ʍ | ʍ | | i | i | i | | I | ɪ | ɪ | | e | e | e | | E | ɛ | ɛ | | @ | æ | æ | | a | a | a | | & | ə | ə | | 3 | ɜ | ɜ | | u | u | u | | U | ʊ | ʊ | | o | o | o | | ^ | ʌ | ʌ | | > | ɔ | ɔ | | A | ɑ | ɑ | | _r | ˞ | ˞ | | &_r | ɚ | ɚ |

LearningToTalk/worldbet documentation built on May 8, 2019, 5:49 p.m.